Ballot Title Setting Board
2009-2010

The title as designated and fixed by the Board is as follows:

An amendment to the Colorado constitution concerning limits on water available for new residential housing, and, in connection therewith, imposing a one percent annual growth limit on the amount of water available for newly constructed, privately owned residential housing units for the counties of Adams, Arapahoe, Boulder, Broomfield, Denver, Douglas, El Paso, Jefferson, Larimer, and Weld; allowing an increased allotment for affordable housing; requiring water supply entities to keep records of water use; and subjecting the water growth limits to referendum and initiative in all other counties once the amendment becomes effective and in the specified counties in 2016.

The ballot title and submission clause as designated and fixed by the Board is as follows:

Shall there be an amendment to the Colorado constitution concerning limits on water available for new residential housing, and, in connection therewith, imposing a one percent annual growth limit on the amount of water available for newly constructed, privately owned residential housing units for the counties of Adams, Arapahoe, Boulder, Broomfield, Denver, Douglas, El Paso, Jefferson, Larimer, and Weld; allowing an increased allotment for affordable housing; requiring water supply entities to keep records of water use; and subjecting the water growth limits to referendum and initiative in all other counties once the amendment becomes effective and in the specified counties in 2016?

Hearing March 17, 2010

Single subject approved; staff draft amended; titles set.
Hearing adjourned 11:41 a.m.

* Unofficially captioned “Water Use for New Housing” by legislative staff for tracking purposes. Such caption is not part of the titles set by the Board.